County Executive Steve Schuh asked BWMC to withdraw its challenge for cardiac surgery program on Monday, the same day the state health commission pushed the decision to decide if an Anne Arundel County hospital will be granted the sought after program.

Anne Arundel Medical Center described opponent's critiques about its recommendation for a cardiac surgery program as "baseless" and "disingenuous," in papers filed Thursday asking the state health care commission to adopt the recommendation.

As athletes across the area prepare for another season of high school sports, their on-field performance is watched closely by coaches who are under pressure to win. But parents who drop off their children at practice in the sometimes brutal summer heat are more concerned with those teens coming home safely.